Reflection Resource Management for Intelligent Reflecting Surface Aided Wireless Networks

• Published in: IEEE transactions on communications Vol. 69; no. 10; pp. 6971 - 6986
• Main Authors: Gao, Yulan, Yong, Chao, Xiong, Zehui, Zhao, Jun, Xiao, Yue, Niyato, Dusit
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.10.2021; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Algorithms; alternating direction and method of multipliers (ADMM); Approximation; Approximation algorithms; Array signal processing; Beamforming; Computational geometry; Convexity; group sparsity; Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS); Mathematical programming; Modular structures; Modules; passive beamforming; Phase shifters; Power demand; Quality of service; Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces; reflection resource management; Resource management; transmit power allocation; Wireless networks

In this paper, the adoption of an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) for multiple user pairs in two-hop networks is investigated. Different from the existing studies on IRS that mainly focused on tuning the reflection coefficients of all elements, we consider the implementation of true reflection...